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• Cliché

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  • 1 year ago

  bobulate:

  Seth Godin on clichés:

  In printing, a cliché was a printing plate cast from movable type. This is also called a stereotype. When letters were set one at a time, it made sense to cast a phrase used repeatedly as a single slug of metal. “Cliché” came to mean such a ready-made phrase. The French word “cliché” comes from the sound made when the matrix is dropped into molten metal to make a printing plate.

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     hey lil chica :) — ugh ! u better shut ur mouth and don’t ever try...mess up wit me !

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      In printing, a cliché was a printing plate cast from movable type. This is also called a stereotype. When letters were...

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      file this along with why we call big letters ‘uppercase’ and little ones ‘lowercase’

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      XD good point, I had it liked but I should really pass it along!

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